Supercar crash: 10 most expensive luxury car accidents

A driver crashed a £528,000 supercar after spinning out of control on a test
run down a country lane near Aberdeen, leaving an expensive insurance bill.
Here are some other expensive crashes involving luxury cars.

9:15AM GMT 25 Mar 2010

1 Ferrari 1962-64 250 GTO: £19 million.

The car’s British owner, who has never been named, was participating in an historic car race when he crashed into the back of another car in slow traffic. He had bought the car at auction in 2008 for $28.5 million.

2 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder: £6.7 million.

The 1961 car was bought at auction in 2008 for $10 million. But the unfortunate owner, who has not been named, stored the car near a Californian beach and it was wrecked in a hurricane.

The unnamed owner of this $1.65 million car, nicknamed "Tour de France" crashed into a wall during the Shell Ferrari-Maserati Historic Challenge in 2003 at the infamous Lime Rockrace track in, Connecticut, United States.

4 Ferrari Enzo: £1 million.

Swedish businessman Bo Stefan "Fat Steven" Eriksson was involved in the spectacular accident in 2006, when he lost control of his $1.5 million Ferrari at 196mph on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and crashed into a pole.

He later pleaded no contest to a drunken driving charge in connection with the crash and embezzling two other fancy cars and illegally possessing a gun.

At the crash site, Eriksson claimed he had been a passenger in the Ferrari and that a German he knew only as "Dietrich" was driving the car, but had fled into the hills.

He was deported back to Sweden in 2008. It was one 20 crashes involving the same make of car, one of about 400 ever made.

5 Jaguar XJ220: £900,000.

The unnamed owner crashed this car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the world's biggest historic motorsport event. The front bonnet crumpled in the crash.

6 Bugatti Veyron: £830,000.

Away Soni, 39, was driving his older brother’s rare car at 100mph in the pouring rain along a 40mph stretch of the B375 near Chertsey, Surrey in March 2007.

He collided into a Vauxhall Astra, whose driver was seven-months pregnant woman and had just returned from hospital after tests, before crashing into a three feet bank.

His millionaire brother, Kumar Soni, 41, from Shepperton, Surrey, who had only had the car for about a week after waiting a year for its delivery, had planned to rent out the car as a £20,000 “driving experience”.

The car is one of the world's most expensive and fastest street-legal vehicles with just over 100 built from the 300 planned productions.

7 Pagani Zonda: £669,000.

The car’s owner crashed his vehicle in Hong Kong in December last year when an out of control truck forced him into a row of parked cars. He had been driving back from racing track event.

Just over 100 of the cars were ever produced of the car. A similar car was involved in a crash in the Asian city several years ago.

8 McLaren F1: £640,000.

Rowan Atkinson, the actor, in October 1999 crashed his 240mph machine, one of the fastest production cars in the world at the time.